I have downloaded Acrobat 8 for Slack 11 and now Slack 12. When I try
to run it I get a continuous string of errors saying
expr: syntax error

I have xpdf and kpdf but they don't give the page size of the document
which I need.

John Culleton

10-06-2007, 04:37 PM

unix

Re: Acrobat 8 won't work.

On 2007-07-25, [email]john@wexfordpress.com[/email] <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have downloaded Acrobat 8 for Slack 11 and now Slack 12. When I try
> to run it I get a continuous string of errors saying
> expr: syntax error
>
> I have xpdf and kpdf but they don't give the page size of the document
> which I need.[/color]

If you can use Acrobat 7, see this:
[url]http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/office/acroread/[/url]

Note the acroread-libgtk-sed.patch which fixes that problem.
If you *must* have Acrobat 8, then consider modifying that patch
for use on it.

On 2007-07-25, [email]john@wexfordpress.com[/email] <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have downloaded Acrobat 8 for Slack 11 and now Slack 12. When I try
> to run it I get a continuous string of errors saying
> expr: syntax error
>
> I have xpdf and kpdf but they don't give the page size of the document
> which I need.
>
> John Culleton[/color]

I find the command line program 'pdfinfo' (which ships with xpdf) to be
useful in this respect.

Christopher

10-06-2007, 04:37 PM

unix

Re: Acrobat 8 won't work.

[email]john@wexfordpress.com[/email] <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have downloaded Acrobat 8 for Slack 11 and now Slack 12.[/color]

According to the website from Adobe itself, AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386
is still the newest one (for Linux), so where you got a 8 version from
I don't know.
I wouldn't trust it. It is either a BETA or a hack.